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Friday, 6 January 2017

A Broken Crystal Goblet: Post #3

A cook had a waking dream in which his wife saw that a
crystal goblet which had been in the family for a long time seemed to have
spontaneously broken. On Wednesday, he and I isolated the symbols and then he
made metaphoric associations for each symbol. We have now reassembled his dream
removing the words that were the original symbols and then replacing them with
his metaphoric descriptions. In addition, we have added phrases throughout,
such as, “There is a part of me…” designed to remind the dreamer that all
symbols in his dream represent facets of himself.

Reconstructed
dream

There is a part of me
that is in a time of celebration, reflection and honoring an important event
that took place within myself. Cooking is my passion. I love to prepare delicious
food for enjoyment and health. My present cooking has so many associations for
me. I do it during special celebrations. There is something in my history that
reminds me of olden times within myself. And there is also the association with
attempting something that was not successful. This meal I am cooking within
myself is involved. It means putting off other responsibilities and interests.
But it’s a sharing with other parts of me. There’s comradery, enjoyment and
maybe even a bit of showing off. There is no moderation. I’ll spare no effort,
maybe to an excessive degree, since this is just a party. The part of me that
is my partner and best friend, who offers a balanced view of my affairs when I
am too closely involved to be objective, has a shocked reaction. This part of
me sees that something within me that is elegant for the sake of elegance has
been rendered unusable. The beauty is really not necessary; you don’t really
need it to consume what it is intended to hold. There is a sense of preciousness
for its own sake rather than for any practical concern. This elegance earned a
special place by being ancient and being associated with all the parts of me
for a long time. It was given extra care and attention. It was now useless and
dangerous. It was almost as if the elegance broke itself of its own accord.
There was no impact, no influence from anything else.

Discussion

As the dreamer and I were reassembling his dream in its
metaphoric version, I noticed a word that got inserted into the new version
that is a symbol. The word is “cooking.”
We ought to have stopped and gone through the same process of creating a
metaphoric association for this word. But I decided to take a risk since the
word “cooking” is such a common metaphor: “What’s cooking?” or “He’s cooking
something up.” are both common expressions. It seemed as if the metaphoric
message of that word was clear.

With that understanding, it’s fascinating to read the above
version of the dream to get a clear sense of the themes running through it.
There are issues of excess and “preciousness” that the more balanced part of
the dreamer is shocked by. Tomorrow, we’ll ask the dreamer what he thinks this
might all be about.

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